Who's really in need of the mental testing? After the Brian Conley meltdown, it's emerged that the contestants have 12 psychological disorders between them.

Whipple, a psychologist, best known for his work in mental testing, is rarely if ever mentioned in contemporary circles when discussing gifted education.

Here, she explores definitions of race and racism, human evolution and natural selection, racial inequality, racism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, intelligence and mental testing, whiteness and privilege in the US, international perspectives on race, and racial reconstruction and the future of race relations in America.

Thus, by chance, in 1908, mental testing took off from this fragile concatenation of events and, as told in Zenderland's (1998) encyclopaedic and disinterested account, expanded via the training schools and mass testing movements of World War I to the domains of education, medicine and work.

A new study that combines mental testing with brain imaging takes Spearman's side.